Adding subview to a subview from another method

Question

Let me start off by describing my situation. I have a main view that I wish to place a smaller scrollview subview in. Then later in code (in another method), I like to add some subviews (images and textviews) to that scrollview subview. And maybe even remove the image- and text-subviews later (in yet another method). So the image- and text-subviews ends up been a subview of a subview of the main view.

This is easily done, if it all happens inside the same method. But I can't seem to add a 3rd generation subview to the second subview from another method. Would expect something like:

[self.view.scrollviewSubview addSubview:anotherSubview];

How to target the scrollview-subview placed as subview in main view. Hope my question makes sense, it's really hard to describe in text.

Answer 1

I'm not sure to have understood ^^

But if your problem is to access a subview you don't have a pointer to, maybe you could set a tag to your subview

[ view setTag:9000 ];

Then later in your code you could search for this view with :

[ view viewWithTag:9000 ]

Don't forget that with viewWithTag you will get an UIView class. So if you need to get a specific class, you should cast it like

(MyViewSubclassed*)[ view viewWithTag:9000 ]

Good Luck !